medicines and related substances control act 101 of 1965

6(e)if the Minister is satisfied that the member has violated the internal rules of conduct as determinedby the council and published by notice in the Gazette.(3) If the office of any member becomes vacant before the expiration of the period for which he or she wasappointed, the Minister may appoint another person to hold office for the unexpired portion of the periodfor which his or her predecessor was appointed.(4) A member of the council or of a committee appointed in terms of section 9 shall declare his or hercommercial interests related to the pharmaceutical or health care industry, which interests shall include,but shall not be limited to, any consultancy, paid or unpaid, any research grant from which the memberdirectly or indirectly benefits, or any equity holding or any executive or non-executive directorship or anyother payment or benefit in kind, and shall recuse himself or herself from any discussion or decisionmakingto which the said interests relate or may relate.7. Meetings of the council(1) The first meeting of the council shall be held at a time and place to be fixed by the Minister, and allsubsequent meetings shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be held at such times and places asmay be fixed by the council: Provided that the council shall hold at least one meeting in any period ofthree months and, if at the close of any meeting the council has not fixed the time and place for its nextmeeting, such time and place shall be fixed by the chairman.(2) The chairman of the council may at any time call a special meeting of the council to be held at such timeand place as he may determine, and shall, upon a written request by the Minister or a written requestsigned by not less than three members of the council, call a special meeting thereof to be held within thirtydays after the date of receipt of such request, at such time and place as he may determine.8. Quorum, majority decision and chairman's casting vote(1) A majority of all the members of the council shall form a quorum for any meeting of the council.(2) At all meetings of the council the chairman, or in his absence the vice-chairman, or in the absence of boththe chairman and the vice-chairman, some other member of the council chosen by the members present,shall preside.(3) Save as provided in section thirty-six, the decision of a majority of the members of the council present atany meeting thereof shall constitute a decision of the council, and in the event of an equality of votes inregard to any matter, the person presiding at the meeting in question shall have a casting vote in additionto his deliberative vote.(4) No decision or act done under the authority of the council shall be invalid by reason only of an interimvacancy on the council or of the fact that a person who is disqualified from being a member of thecouncil, or with respect to whose appointment the provisions of this Act have not been observed, sat oracted as a member at the time when the decision was taken or the act was performed or authorized, if thedecision was taken or the act was performed or authorized by the requisite majority of the members of thecouncil present at the time who were entitled to sit and act as members.9. Appointment of executive committee and other committees(1) The council may appoint-(a)subject to the approval of the Minister, from among its members an executive committee; and